If you haven't seen a cat in the wild yet my hounds and I will probably put one in a tree with in three hunting days for you to get a good up close look and some awesome pictures. They are thick in northern California. Last season we treed a tom in Nevada that was well over 200 lbs. The cat was only 12 feet up the tree and I only had one dog and it was in the snow. I live in El Dorado County where the first fatal attack in over 100 years occured. In late 2009 I cut the largest cat tracks I have ever seen, probably 4-5 inches across. Females with three cubs are not an uncommon sight here. There are probably 8000+ cats in California and we can't hunt them because of Prop. 117. More to come -Pete